They will be sedate with what ever flight manuvers they will fly. As I understand it, the A-400 is still exploring the flight envelope and performance. I doubt they will fly the airplane to anywhere near its limits.

Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 1):They will be sedate with what ever flight manuvers they will fly. As I understand it, the A-400 is still exploring the flight envelope and performance. I doubt they will fly the airplane to anywhere near its limits.

The A400M normal flight envelope was cleared in December last year, 12 days after the first flight.

Quoting zeke (Reply 4):Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 1):
They will be sedate with what ever flight manuvers they will fly. As I understand it, the A-400 is still exploring the flight envelope and performance. I doubt they will fly the airplane to anywhere near its limits.

The A400M normal flight envelope was cleared in December last year, 12 days after the first flight.

As I understand it, the A-400 is not yet cleared to fly in rain or IFR weather conditions, and the more aggressive manuvers have not been fully explored yet. It has flown to its max airspeed and altitude. Is that not true?

Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 5):As I understand it, the A-400 is not yet cleared to fly in rain or IFR weather conditions

That had nothing to do with the aircraft. MSN 1 has strain gauges attached to the props that could come off in water, so flight into clouds or taxi with standing water was avoided. That does not apply to the subsequent aircraft, and the strain gauges will be removed from the props when they have the data they need from MSN1.

MSN2 is flying in IFR conditions.

Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 5):and the more aggressive manuvers have not been fully explored yet

The whole envelope has been cleared, full stop. Other manoeuvres were done in January to calibrate the air data system etc, however they are still done within the normal flight envelope.

Quoting zeke (Reply 6):Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 5):
It has flown to its max airspeed and altitude

It has been flow from stall to maximum speed/mach/max alt.

Didn't I say that?

Quoting zeke (Reply 6):Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 5):
As I understand it, the A-400 is not yet cleared to fly in rain or IFR weather conditions

That had nothing to do with the aircraft. MSN 1 has strain gauges attached to the props that could come off in water, so flight into clouds or taxi with standing water was avoided. That does not apply to the subsequent aircraft, and the strain gauges will be removed from the props when they have the data they need from MSN1.

As does ever other airplane, we all know that. What I was talking about was would EADS demonstrate things like a max performance take-off, yanking and banking, steep approaches, and other aggressive manuvers. Or would they just fly around the VFR traffic pattern with a few touch and gos?

No, you said, "A-400 is still exploring the flight envelope and performance".

Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 7):What I was talking about was would EADS demonstrate things like a max performance take-off, yanking and banking, steep approaches, and other aggressive manuvers. Or would they just fly around the VFR traffic pattern with a few touch and gos?

All of that is part of the standard flight envelope, it is not something the aircraft is not cleared to do already. Given the way they tend to do airshow performances they will show as much as they can in the time available, I even remember seeing the A380 flying around at 100 kt at an airshow at large bank angles.

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